Kathryn's research and work have focussed on coral reef ecology, coral ecotoxicology, larval dispersal, and reef monitoring, as well as fisheries management. Her recent projects at UQ have been on the XL Catlin Seaview Survey team, where she worked on the Great Barrier Reef, Indonesia, the Philipines and Taiwan. Currently she is working on the Allen Coral Atlas project, and the Great Barrier Reef Mapping Project within the Remote Sensing Research Centre, where she aranges the logistics, collects field data, and utilises her reef ecology background to train an Automated Image Annotation program to identify benthos on Geo-referenced photos collected around the world. The Allen Coral Atlas aims to create the first consistent geomorphic and benthic map of the coral reefs of the world, utilising satelite imagery, field knowledge, geo-referenced benthic photos, and cloud processing on Google Earth Engine.
The projects Kathryn has been working on at the University of Queensland have global impact, and are focused on both increasing awareness of the current state of the worlds coral reefs, as well as providing invaluable tools to allow the sharing of data between countries, and improving conservation and reef management planning.
Journal Article: How Much Shallow Coral Habitat Is There on the Great Barrier Reef?
Roelfsema, Chris M., Lyons, Mitchell B., Castro-Sanguino, Carolina, Kovacs, Eva M., Callaghan, David, Wettle, Magnus, Markey, Kathryn, Borrego-Acevedo, Rodney, Tudman, Paul, Roe, Meredith, Kennedy, Emma V., Gonzalez-Rivero, Manuel, Murray, Nicholas and Phinn, Stuart R. (2021). How Much Shallow Coral Habitat Is There on the Great Barrier Reef?. Remote Sensing, 13 (21) 4343, 4343. doi: 10.3390/rs13214343
Journal Article: Large scale study of benthic communities in Eastern Indonesia’s reef systems
Razak, Tries B., Ramadhani, Bilqis A., Corni, Sarra, Roelfsema, Chris, Markey, Kathryn, Bambic, Brianna, De Brauwer, Maarten, Masdar, Halwi, Purnama, Ray, Dumbrell, Alex J., Jompa, Jamaluddin, Limmon, Gino V., Beger, Maria and Fox, Helen E. (2021). Large scale study of benthic communities in Eastern Indonesia’s reef systems. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 44 101731, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.rsma.2021.101731
Roelfsema, Chris, Kovacs, Eva M., Vercelloni, Julie, Markey, Kathryn, Rodriguez-Ramirez, Alberto, Lopez-Marcano, Sebastian, Gonzalez-Rivero, Manuel, Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove and Phinn, Stuart R. (2021). Fine-scale time series surveys reveal new insights into spatio-temporal trends in coral cover (2002–2018), of a coral reef on the Southern Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs, 40 (4), 1-13. doi: 10.1007/s00338-021-02104-y
How Much Shallow Coral Habitat Is There on the Great Barrier Reef?
Roelfsema, Chris M., Lyons, Mitchell B., Castro-Sanguino, Carolina, Kovacs, Eva M., Callaghan, David, Wettle, Magnus, Markey, Kathryn, Borrego-Acevedo, Rodney, Tudman, Paul, Roe, Meredith, Kennedy, Emma V., Gonzalez-Rivero, Manuel, Murray, Nicholas and Phinn, Stuart R. (2021). How Much Shallow Coral Habitat Is There on the Great Barrier Reef?. Remote Sensing, 13 (21) 4343, 4343. doi: 10.3390/rs13214343
Large scale study of benthic communities in Eastern Indonesia’s reef systems
Razak, Tries B., Ramadhani, Bilqis A., Corni, Sarra, Roelfsema, Chris, Markey, Kathryn, Bambic, Brianna, De Brauwer, Maarten, Masdar, Halwi, Purnama, Ray, Dumbrell, Alex J., Jompa, Jamaluddin, Limmon, Gino V., Beger, Maria and Fox, Helen E. (2021). Large scale study of benthic communities in Eastern Indonesia’s reef systems. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 44 101731, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.rsma.2021.101731
Roelfsema, Chris, Kovacs, Eva M., Vercelloni, Julie, Markey, Kathryn, Rodriguez-Ramirez, Alberto, Lopez-Marcano, Sebastian, Gonzalez-Rivero, Manuel, Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove and Phinn, Stuart R. (2021). Fine-scale time series surveys reveal new insights into spatio-temporal trends in coral cover (2002–2018), of a coral reef on the Southern Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs, 40 (4), 1-13. doi: 10.1007/s00338-021-02104-y
Roelfsema, Chris M., Lyons, Mitchell, Murray, Nicholas, Kovacs, Eva M., Kennedy, Emma, Markey, Kathryn, Borrego-Acevedo, Rodney, Ordoñez Alvarez, Alexandra, Say, Chantel, Tudman, Paul, Roe, Meredith, Wolff, Jeremy, Traganos, Dimosthenis, Asner, Gregory P., Bambic, Brianna, Free, Brian, Fox, Helen E., Lieb, Zoe and Phinn, Stuart R. (2021). Workflow for the generation of expert-derived training and validation data: a view to global scale habitat mapping. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8 643381, 1-13. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.643381
Roelfsema, Chris, Kovacs, Eva M., Markey, Kathryn, Vercelloni, Julie, Rodriguez-Ramirez, Alberto, Lopez-Marcano, Sebastian, Gonzalez-Rivero, Manuel, Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove and Phinn, Stuart R. (2021). Benthic and coral reef community field data for Heron Reef, Southern Great Barrier Reef, Australia, 2002–2018. Scientific Data, 8 (1) 84, 84. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00871-5
Kennedy, Emma V., Vercelloni, Julie, Neal, Benjamin P., Ambariyanto, Bryant, Dominic E. P., Ganase, Anjani, Gartrell, Patrick, Brown, Kristen, Kim, Catherine J. S., Hudatwi, Mu’alimah, Hadi, Abdul, Prabowo, Agus, Prihatinningsih, Puji, Haryanta, Sutris, Markey, Kathryn, Green, Susannah, Dalton, Peter, Lopez-Marcano, Sebastian, Rodriguez-Ramirez, Alberto, Gonzalez-Rivero, Manuel and Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove (2020). Coral reef community changes in Karimunjawa National Park, Indonesia: assessing the efficacy of management in the face of local and global stressors. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 8 (10) 760, 760-27. doi: 10.3390/jmse8100760
Mapping the world's coral reefs using a global multiscale earth observation framework
Lyons, Mitchell B., Roelfsema, Chris M., Kennedy, Emma V., Kovacs, Eva M., Borrego-Acevedo, Rodney, Markey, Kathryn, Roe, Meredith, Yuwono, Doddy M., Harris, Daniel L., Phinn, Stuart R., Asner, Gregory P., Li, Jiwei, Knapp, David E., Fabina, Nicholas S., Larsen, Kirk, Traganos, Dimosthenis and Murray, Nicholas J. (2020). Mapping the world's coral reefs using a global multiscale earth observation framework. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 6 (4) rse2.157, 557-568. doi: 10.1002/rse2.157
Monitoring of coral reefs using artificial intelligence: a feasible and cost-effective approach
González-Rivero, Manuel, Beijbom, Oscar, Rodriguez-Ramirez, Alberto, Bryant, Dominic E. P., Ganase, Anjani, Gonzalez-Marrero, Yeray, Herrera-Reveles, Ana, Kennedy, Emma V., Kim, Catherine J. S., Lopez-Marcano, Sebastian, Markey, Kathryn, Neal, Benjamin P., Osborne, Kate, Reyes-Nivia, Catalina, Sampayo, Eugenia M., Stolberg, Kristin, Taylor, Abbie, Vercelloni, Julie, Wyatt, Mathew and Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove (2020). Monitoring of coral reefs using artificial intelligence: a feasible and cost-effective approach. Remote Sensing, 12 (3) 489, 489. doi: 10.3390/rs12030489
Markey, Kathryn L., Abdo, Dave A., Evans, Scott N. and Bosserelle, Cyprien (2016). Keeping It Local: Dispersal Limitations of Coral Larvae to the High Latitude Coral Reefs of the Houtman Abrolhos Islands. PloS One, 11 (1) e0147628, 1-12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147628
Roelfsema, Christiaan M., Kovacs, Eva, Markey, Kathryn and Phinn, Stuart R. (2018). Benthic and substrate cover data derived from field photo-transect surveys for the Cairns to Cooktown management region of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), January and April/May 2017. Pangaea. (Collection)
Roelfsema, Christiaan M., Kovacs, Eva, Markey, Kathryn and Phinn, Stuart R. (2018). Benthic and substrate cover data derived from field photo-transect surveys for the Far Northern management region of the Great Barrier Reef.. Pangaea. (Collection)